Moonlight Graham

The OP is like saying "50 Canadians held in US prisons amid legal uncertainty because they stole gum from stores in the US". If you're a Canadian who is in the US illegally and thus broken their laws you have created your own problems. Hopefully the law is and will be applied fairly.

This school board couldn't say "Happy Canada Day" last week without dedicating 90% of their post to acknowledging wrongs towards indigenous peoples. In fact they didn't even say "Happy Canada Day" LOL.

Read the OP in full and then read the tweet from the school board I posted. Pretty congruent. I, for one, don't feel any guilt celebrating this country on Canada Day. No need to feel shame about celebrating it, no need for an asterisk. I'm also not "a settler" by definition, I was born in this country. If people want a word to call non-indigenous people how about "non-indigenous"? Here's one indigenous person's view on that (where they can't help but throw out some racism of their own): https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article-for-some-the-definition-of-settler-is-as-difficult-to-pin-down-as/ Also, "Turtle Island" is what some indigenous groups called/call the continent of North America, it's not a synonym for Canada, which is a distinct entity. Maybe we can have a Turtle Island Day and celebrate the continent, do it with the US and Mexico etc. I'm all for "truth and reconciliation" but truth needs to come from all sides. No more myth-making narratives. The problem with the left I've noticed (and used to be guilty of) is that they tend to only see the negative in anyone/anything that is strong. The US, the wealthy, corporations, you name it. Of course that's because when you're strong you have power, and sometimes the powerful abuse their power and can harm the less powerful, which is fine and good to criticize. E.g. It's easy to rag on Amazon or Walmart, but you never hear the left talk about the benefits to society from having low-cost and convenient goods from these companies. Same with the USA. It's the shittiest country in the world...but compared to which other powerful countries exactly? For all the good progressives want to do why does so much of their rhetoric seem to divisive?

1. No, it's a statement saying which problems/issues we should and shouldn't discuss according to you. Your frequent type of argument for problems you don't want people to discuss is "we need to stop talking about this, because problems X and Y are more important". This is a red herring fallacy, also known as "whattaboutism". If you'd like to talk about education cuts and tax breaks for the rich (they exist in Canada?) you're free to create your own thread discussing them. 2. I don't think there's some "conspiracy", which denotes some secret planned agreement among a group of people. There's a bunch of people in this country, from politicians to educators, typically those we call "progressives", who can't celebrate Canada Day without including an asterisk about how we should feel a bunch of shame and guilt about past wrongs on a day meant for celebration. We have 364 other days to acknowledge past wrongs, including a holiday in Sept literally dedicate to that. Canada Day is meant for celebrating this country and all the good it entails. Sometimes I leave the toilet seat up and snore in my sleep but my birthday party isn't the time to bring those things up.

No, we all know the riding borders were redrawn. I'm asking what evidence you have that the new areas added were filled with traditional Liberal and NDP supporters? The maps clearly show that a suburban area was removed and a big rural area was added. Rural people tend to lean conservative. Again, show the evidence. This seems like pure speculation on your part. Do you have maps showing where the individual pollings stations in those areas voted? Here, as I suspected, all the rural area added went CPC in 2021 minus 2 polls: https://www.stephentaylor.ca/data/political/canada/federal/election/2021/35041/ And why did voters turn to Carney's Liberals over PP's CPC if they feared Trump? Who was more likely to live inside Trump's butt? Maybe not the guy parroting his campaign slogans and some of his policies? Again, why did voters turn to Carney's Liberals over PP's CPC if they were scared about Trump? Why did they think Carney was was more anti-Trump than PP? The answer is pretty obvious. It's relevant if PP's CPC added 7.6 points while Carney's Liberals added 11. A lot of people changed their votes in 2025 and all of it went to either the CPC or Liberals. Some went to the CPC but most went to the Liberals. LOL I couldn't care less if you think i'm lying. My posting history speaks for itself. And you'd have a lot more success getting me to answer your question if you didn't throw insults at me like a child.

The Liberals had led the country into the worst state its been arguably since WWII/Depression era. PP let some political rookie come in and take the election from him. The CPC were up in the polls by at least 10 points since late 2023 until Trudeau resigned and Trump opened his dumb fat mouth. On Jan 1st this year the polls were 45% CPC, 20% Liberals, 19% NDP. https://338canada.com/polls.htm

What's your evidence for this? Looking at the maps, in 2025 they reduced the amount of suburbs and increased the rural area for PP's riding: 2021: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carleton_(Ontario_federal_electoral_district)#/map/0 2025: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carleton_(Ontario_federal_electoral_district)#/map/1 Yes. The PPC didn't run this election and those would logically go to the CPC. The NDP, Greens, and Bloc all lost votes this election, and some went to the CPC but most went to the Liberals. The Liberals gained 11.1% compared to 2021, and the CPC gained 7.6%. And in PP's riding virtually nobody voted NDP or Green. He scared the left to vote Liberal because of his Trumpisms. Remember, in the previous 2 elections the CPC actually won the popular vote, but they lost the popular vote this time. PP blew it, with Trump's help with all the 51st state crap and tariffs. People saw Carney as more anti-Trump and more likely to fight back on him, while PP seemed more Trump-friendly. Trump screwed PP's chances and PP just made the situation worse. Keep in mind I was for the CPC over the Liberals last election. And sorry but if you're the party leader and keep standing in front of a podium with "Canada First" written on it and spout Trump-like policy proposals that's on you. They doubled down on the Trump-like branding and it didn't work, it was an incredibly stupid political strategy given the anti-Trump sentiment in the country. Sure maybe he wasn't the one who thought of it, but he ok'd it and implemented it. Like I said before, he's gotta read the room FFS.

How do you explain PP losing his seat? Pierre started copying Trump slogans like "Canada First" along with introducing some Trump-esque policy proposals during his campaign at a time when anti-Trump sentiment was at an all-time high in the country due to 51st state rhetoric and tariffs etc. Terrible judgement.

I agree that PP doesn't have good political instincts.

You can say this about most everyone in the country. I didn't take a gun and shoo FN's off my property and built a home on it. We all benefit from the colonialism. If you moved here you're a "settler" like everyone else and perpetuating and even expanding the same system.

There's a lot of Crown land. It's not just about private properties. You do also benefit from the thriving society built on the land you don't own plus Crown land.

Happy Canada Day Michael. (PS I confirmed that below is a real post from Waterloo DSB from today).

We have some foreign interference and a biased public broadcaster, both things I vehemently oppose. It's very possible this could sway a handful of seats (give-or-take). I'm not unsympathetic to some of your takes here. Unless it's a close tally in seats, overall I think our elections are still legitimate though. But we need to do better. There's a fine line between pointing out issues that must be fixed and creating lies like Trump did post-2020 and what a lot of Canadian twitter accounts do. We have to tread carefully. PP ventured unwisely into some Trump-ish rhetoric and policies and lost the election over it. If I were up to me, I would reform the CBC to make it as politically neutral as possible. CBC News would be something more akin to the Canadian Press (just facts, no spin, no politically motivated selection of stories). I would also be extremely tough on foreign interference. The gov also needs to tread extremely carefully about this whole "online harms" bill. Free speech is important for a healthy democracy. Political correctness should not be legislated.

Happy Canada Day Michael.

We have our issues, increasingly it seems, and there's serious problems with a party's government giving media outlets money (conflict of interest) even though I think the intentions were probably good (help out our struggling media).

Whattaboutism. Unity is an issue in this country. It's hard to feel connected to a "team" when you don't know much about it, or feel ashamed of it. No, the point of the 2nd PM is my argument that people know about our history of residential schools, but they don't know much about the rest of our history before the time of one's birth. Young people know about the shame of those schools, but what else? If they can't name the 2nd PM, what about the 3rd? Or 4th? 5th? 6th? Could they name any PM pre-WWI besides Sir John A (who btw we're made to feel ashamed of, see: cancel culture). Do they know what any PM before they were born even looks like besides the ones that are on our money bills? Is our money the main thing teaching us our history? If you want a united country where provinces don't keep threatening to leave we might want to teach Canadians what this country is all about, where we came from, and why its matters that we're a team in he first place. There's no getting through to a liberal-minded person though. Your ilk are the ones who created this problem in the first place. I'll quote the meme saying that isn't it pathetic how Trump united Canada more in a month than Trudeau did in 10 years? We need a unifying national identity other than "We're not America". If anything is old and boring, it's that.

We can only dream...

Yeah fret not, this is mostly just paid for by increasing to the debt/deficit. No need to pay for anything! It's the Liberal Way.

Only because we've let the US do most of our dirty work for us. Do we get along with the USA right now? With the US no longer a reliable ally including to defend us, steps need to be taken to increase our ability to stand on our own 2 feet.

Ask them their opinions on Sir John A.

Ask them, or any Canadian, who our 2nd Prime Minister was. Ask them what the Statute of Westminster is. Then ask them what the residential schools were.

White liberals hate themselves. They're filled with guilt. They compare themselves to perfection rather than every other civilization ever. They want nothing short of the destruction of Western civilization. White liberals mean well, but are among the least-wise humans to ever exist. They're hopelessly self-destruction. They can't stomach the tough and sometimes brutal decisions it takes to survive in the natural world we live in. Their ideas are utopian and idealistic, they don't live in the realm of reality. And they certainly don't bother to think about the longterm consequences of the idea they implement. The path to evil is paved with good intentions.

"Just under half of young people aged 18 to 34 in Quebec support the idea of provincial independence, marking a near-20 per cent increase over the past year, according to a new poll by Léger." WTF.

Their parents made them grow up in schools that didn't fly the Canadian flag and didn't sing the Canadian National Anthem. They celebrate La fête nationale du Québec in late June more than they celebrate Canada Day a week later. They're also too young to remember the economic sh*t-kicking Quebec got after the last referendum when businesses started leaving Quebec, both Canadian and America. Montreal was once a world-class city They might need to remove the monarchy to save Canada at this point.

F*ck Trump. Slap a tariff on his d*ck and tell him to suck it.